Life Design

Life Design

Program Overview

Life Design is an approach and set of tools that anyone can use to navigate life's transitions and challenges with greater clarity, creativity, and confidence.

At the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University, we teach and practice Life Design to empower students and community members to design a life and career that is aligned with their values, skills, and vision for a better world.  

Taylor Your Tulane

Taylor Your Tulane is a life design lab that helps first-year students design their college experience. Tulane students can enroll in a class, Tulane staff and faculty can express interest in teaching the class, and community members and higher education professionals can access our open-source curriculum. If you’re interested in attending a public workshop in the future, tell us here.

Taylor Your Life

Taylor Your Life is a change-making career education lab that allows upper-level students to design their life after graduation. Tulane students can enroll in a class, Tulane staff and faculty can express interest in teaching the class, and community members and higher education professionals can access our open-source curriculum. If you’re interested in attending a public workshop in the future, tell us here.

Taylor Your Life Tulane Taylor

Life Design News

Life Design Materials reach 1600 global learners in 2023/2024

Welcome Nichole Valenzuela

Welcome Blake Lewis

ChatGPT Prompting Guides

Harnessing Generative AI to Support Feminist Pedagogy

Julia Lang makes the Case for ChatGPT as the Ultimate Career Educator’s Toolkit

Staff Contact

Taylor Tulane Staff LD

Julia Lang

Professor of Practice and Associate Director of Career Education and Life Design

Email: jlang@tulane.edu

Phone Number: 504-247-1963

Want to learn more about Life Design? Start here.

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